Off Your Skin

I don't know how I found this place I yearned and turned into the face Of which I made for all these years I didn't know I had these fears And when your oxygen it reaches The surface, the color bleaches Turns a shade I've never known Was in my blood or in my bones In my bones Bones All that I do not show And my poems they all end the same In your voice and in your name The only way for us to win Is if I peel you off my skin Piece by piece and I can't slow down This person that I've learned to drown Inside me has begun to swim I watch you peel me off your skin Off your skin Skin Where I end and you begin And things are starting to seem normal which serves as a perfect queue To start acting emotionally askew And stop knowing what to do Or how to act like a train off its track, in a way that lacks Something stable like An anchor or conscious, or being focused or happy or modest And I just Want to do right But I'm on this self-induced plight And I'm the only one that can save it It's more of an itch that I stay trying to scratch Just to play this wounded role I've got more songs in your name, in your name in my soul And I don't know how I found this place I close my eyes and see your face Gunpowder from a war inside Has calmed to dust and we're still tied I'm bare without a stone to hold me down And wind blows through my bullet holes Let me go and I'll float or sink I loved you more than you think Love you more More This does not end here, I'll love you more Look what's under it all I'll love you more More than you think, than I know This does not end here I'm sorry for all that I've done Underneath there's a knot That can never be torn I've never stopped And I'll love you more And I'll love you more